Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-08
THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.
How Much Time will ID Take 20 Cross
soAB PREVIOUS RECoRps-FKw DATA FOR BETTING
MAKING UP FOOLS

From the New York Tribune
On the principle, rather CURLY expressed by
gamblers that ''money talks" the number and
amounts OF the wagers made on any stated occur
renee or sporting nature have come To be regard
ed as the surest indication OF the extent OF the in
terest taken In IT by the general public hisrule.
however, hardly applies 10 the ocean race from
Owls Head TO Roche's Point between the keel
schooners Coronet and Dauntless for q sweep
stakes OF 10000; for while the strictly betting
people-thoSe who are known about town asbeing
always ready TO stake any amount from q nickel
TO thousand dollars or more on anything in which
there Is the element OF chance and who apparently
have no other means OF livenhood-have placed lit
tie money on this contest, there Is no question
that nearly every one who reads his daily paper
watches closely for new details attending the MT
ting up OF the yachts and has some opinion as TO
the probable outcome or their long trip to the
eastward. The gamblers, most OF whom know NJ
tie or nothing about yachts, have doubtless been
nonplussed by the variety OF expressions OF ex-
perts respecting the qualifications OF the two
racers, and have concluded that ..where doctors
disagree" IL is advisable for them TO 'keep their
hands on" OF course they place great confidence
in records, but here again they are in allandary
On the one hand they find vessel with a record
extending over period OF twenty-one years and
fairly well sprinkied with victories while on the
other Is a boat little mere than Year old, in
which have been introduced all the latest great
developments in naval architecture of which they
have heard so much.
Much OF the betting thus far done has been by
members OF the downtown exchanges who are
affiliated with one or another OF the yacht clubs
and who in most instances are preludiced In their
choice 0f boats by their personal relations TO the
owners OF by some other cause than their relative
merits. Odds OF i've TO four are given both ways
and neither Is decided fayorite Most OF those
who back the DauntleSs To win are governed In
their choice not by their faith in the schooner but
by their confidence in Capt. Samuels ability 10
guide her into the best winds and most favorable
currents
one OF the contingencies on which considerable
money is being staked Is the number III days In
which the winning boat Will make the trip. Sew
eral pools OF goodly sums have been made I'm
which the contributors have marked on slips Of
paper, without knowing the figure made by any
other contributor, an estimate OF the duration OF
the voyage: the one coming nearest to the actual
time, OF course, taking the entire amount paid in.
One OF these pools was made at the stock eX-
Change on Thursday; there were fourteen sub
scr1DerS at $500 each. The gueSseS ranged from
ten TO thirty days. The minimum and maximum
OF these are regarded somewhat wild, but in
reality there is little basis for calculation, every
thing depending upon the weather Precedents
show that the difference in time made by yachts
in making the passage is .Tully wide as the
range OF figures made by the pool subscribers.
About the first yacht to cross the Atlantic was
Commodore AShbury's schooner Liyonia. She
came over In september, and was twenty-nine
days, three hours, and thirty minutes In coming
from CoweS TO Sandy Hook. She was about the
size OF the DauntleSS, measuring 1l5 feet inches
at the water line and having depth Of IL feet 81
inches. She encountered rough weather and head
winds and was hove To for 10 hours when about
half way across, and for Ave days Captain j. X.
WOOu, master WAS undDlc 10 make ODSbTNd-
lions. Her best run for single day was 237 miles
and her poorest IS miles.
In the ocean race OF 1866 between James Gordon
Benefits Henrietta, George and Franklin Osgoods
Fleetwing and Pierre Lor1liardS Eesta Tor a sweep
stakes OF 600, the Henrietta made the passage
from the Sandy Hook ightship 10 the Needles at
the southwest point OF the Isle OF Wight In thir-
teen days, twenty-one hours and 1ifty-ye minutes.
Her longest day run was :,S0 miles and the short
est Lob miles. The Fleetwing occupied fourteen
days, six hours and ten minutes IN making the
voyage, and the Vesta fourteen days, six hours
and nifty minutes. The greatest and least dis
tanceS covered in twenty-four hours by the former
Were 30 and 1875 miles. respectively, and 10y the
latter 217 and 165 miles. The NeSta was over
thirty-twO days in making the return voyage ia
May, 1867, being caught in succession OF hurr1-
canes and losing her foretopmaSt, Jibboom and a
portion OF her rail. Her log showed her longest
days run TO be 20 miles, and her shortest
140 miles. The quickest passages were
made by the Dauntless and Sappho in May
and June, 1869. in the former month the Daunt-
less sailed from Sandy Hook To queenstown I'm
and in June the Sappho covered the distance be-
tween the same points in twelve days nine hours
and thirty-SiX minutes. When the Cambria and
DauntleSS raced from CoweS to Sandy Hook In
July OF the following year the DauntleSs was out
twenty,thres days and seven hours: Inc Cambria
and occupied tweny-three days. five hours, seven-
teen minutes and fifteen seconds in crossing.
Those who foreteil the weather are Inclined TO
the belief that there will not be so much wind at
sea as the owners OF the CoroneJ and DauntlesS
hoped for when they agreed upon the time for the
OF the yachts getting TO Queenstown In less Than
twenty days after the start.
Waiting for the Word.
From the New York Times.
All the widespread interest In the ocean yacht
race now centers on theday OF departure, but that
day cannot Yet be told. IL will naturally be be-
tween now and the 10Th fnst since Otherwise
Capt Bush's certified check for $4,000 Will slip
into Capt. Colts already bullying pocket, provided
he chooses to take il. This contingency Is not
Supposable, however, as the Coronet people are
quite as anxious as the Dauntless partiSanS, and
equally sure that their trip 10 Europe VIII be the
shortest In time Any prophecies 10 the contrary
excite increduity In all on board, IRON Capt. An
derSon, the assistant navigator, down TO the
messboy. Capt. Crosby is cool, thorough, and
experienced navigator, and does not propose 10
telephone the DauntleSS that he Is ready until
such is the case in every particular. As far as
preparations go the Coronet could sail to-morrow.
Rumored Telegraph Combination.
WESTERN UNION AGAIN REPORTED TO HAVE MADE
DEAL WITH THE b. o.
The New York stock exchange was full OF stories
yesterday about deal having been made between
the Western Union and Baltimore and ONO Ieie-
graph companies, and the price or western Union
sold higher than at any time since the December
break. Brokers usually representing President
Garrett. OF baltimore and Ohio, were heavy buyers
the stock last week, and an order Is said TO have
been given to-day TO buy 1000 shares Tor prom
fnent director of Western Union No confirmation
can be obtained OF the stories OF consolidation.
WOMAN ARRAIGNED FOR FOUR MCEDERS.-MrS.
Sarah j. Robinson, was, On saturday, arralgned
in the supreme judicial court In East Cambridge.
Mass, on Indictments alleging that she killed
Prince Arthur Freeman, oliver Sleeper, her hus-
band, Moses Robinson, and Thomas Arthur Free
man by administering poison. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty TO all the indictments, and was
held for trial
TRAIN FALLS INTO A RAGING ToRRENr.-The
Texas bound train OF the Iron Mountain railroad,
which left st. Louis saturday night, was preclpl-
tated about ten O'Clock into a creek by the bridge
giving way two and half miles south or Victoria,
Mo. The baggage, mail, express ana smoking cars
went into the raging torrent below, carrying with
them all the men ON board. Engineer Kelley and
Fireman Hach went down with the engine. kel-
ley found that one of his feet was held last, but
Just as he realized that he must drown the engine
turned over, his foot was released ana ne came 10
the surface Selling passing log, he chung TO 1t
desperately and LOGGED against Tree one num-
dred and fifty wards below. Fireman Hach was car
Red about five hundred yards down stream, lodged
In mass OF BRUSH and was rescued soon after the
flood subsidized. The postal car was swept away
some distance, and the mail was literally washed
out and scattered over miles OF territory. The
smoker which is said to have contained some
twenty persons, was swept down about three hun
dred feet below the treSe and all or Its occupants
are believed TO have been saved. They succeeded
in getting outside or the car and chung 10 It's top
until they were rescued.
The TiIden Will Contest.
The answer OF John Bigeiow, Andrew II. Green
and George w. Smith, as executors under the Will
of the late Samuel j. T1lden, to the complaint OF
George II. Tilden, who contests the will on the
ground OF being illegal and invalid, was filed in
New York yesterday In the supreme court. The